by Walt Whitman (1819 - 1892)

Look down, fair moon and bathe this scene
 (Sung text for setting by B. Rands)
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Language: English 
Look down, fair moon and bathe this scene,
Pour softly down night's nimbus floods, on faces ghastly, swollen, purple;
On the dead, on their backs, with  ...  arms toss'd wide,
Pour down your unstinted nimbus, sacred moon.

Composition:

    Set to music by Bernard Rands (b. 1934), "Look down, fair moon and bathe this scene", published 1980, first performed 1981 [ soprano and orchestra ], from Canti lunatici, no. 9, London : Universal Edition

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This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
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Word count: 37